The large American flag is back on a residential fence along Dundee Road at Bach Street in Northbrook thanks to veterans of George W. Benjamin American Legion Post 791 of Northbrook. Post members installed an American flag on May 25 over Memorial Day weekend after the flag, a regular presence on the fence since the evening of Sept.
11, 2001, went missing on May 2. The owners of the flag, Beth Koeppen and Larry Rosenthal, reported the flag as stolen to Northbrook police for documentation reasons. Giving a thumbs up to a motorist honking in approval is Eleanor Nalven of Northbrook, who lives with her daughter Beth Koeppen and Beth’s partner Larry Rosenthal on Bach Street in Northbrook where the new flag is installed at Dundee Road and Bach Street on May 25, 2024 in Northbrook.
(Karie Angell Luc/Pioneer Press) A shocked Koeppen then said, “It’s the flag of our country ...
all people’s flag. “It’s about America.” When post members learned the flag went missing, they immediately offered to replace it.
On a sunny Saturday, veterans installed a brand new flag as shadows became long soon before sunset. Several motorists honked with approval as the small group gathered on a Dundee Road sidewalk for the flag installation. Friends and family attended with support, helping hands, and thumbs up.
From left to right, all of Northbrook, Tom Kittler, Eleanor Nalven, Beth Koeppen, Larry Rosenthal and Rob Holt after the installation of the American flag on a residential fence at D.
